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At this point, you probably either love the idea of making realistic videos with generative AI, or you think it's a morally bankrupt endeavor that devalues artists and will usher in a disastrous era of deepfakes we'll never escape from. It's hard to find middle ground. Meta isn't going to change minds with Movie Gen, its latest video creation AI model, but no matter what you think of AI media creation, it could end up being a significant milestone for the industry.
Movie Gen can produce realistic videos alongside music and sound effects at 16 fps or 24 fps at up to 1080p (upscaled from 768 by 768 pixels). It can also generative personalized videos if you upload a photo, and crucially, it appears to be easy to edit videos using simple text commands. Notably, it can also edit normal, non-AI videos with text. It's easy to imagine how that could be useful for cleaning up something you've shot on your phone for Instagram. Movie Gen is just purely research at the moment —Meta won't be releasing it to the public, so we have a bit of time to think about what it all means.
The company describes Movie Gen as its "third wave" of generative AI research, following its initial media creation tools like Make-A-Scene, as well as
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The Verge spotted verification badges next to some well-known company names in Google search results that led right to their relevant websites. Amazon, Apple, Epic Games, HP, Meta, and Microsoft were among the examples seen, though the badges aren't showing up for everyone — not even the same person logged into different accounts.
"This icon is being shown because Google's signals suggest that this business is the business that it says it is," says the pop-up message for the badge (unhelpfully omitting a link to the definition of tautology on Wiktionary). It finishes in a bit of CYA legalese: "Google can't guarantee the reliability of this business or its products."
As an adoption of visual language that tons of people are familiar with, it makes sense. Even after all the drama surrounding Twitter's verification system after the blue checks became effectively useless after Musk's acquisition, little colored check mark icons remain social media speak for "this thing is legit."
But applying this to Search would require web-wide automation,
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Apple today shared a video ad that highlights the new Camera Control on the latest iPhone 16 models, offering a quick look at the button in action.
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There's a new fix available for certain iPhones and iPads that addresses issues with recording and password security. Apple released two new patches including iOS 18.0.1 for iPhones and iPadOS 18.0.1, according to the support website. The update also finally allows users with an M4-powered iPad to upgrade to iOS 18, after the initial version was pulled for bricking users' devices.
The patch fixes recording issues with all of the iPhone 16 models in the Messages app. The iPhone's microphone would accidentally start recording a few seconds before becoming activated with the orange microphone icon.
The password patch fixes an issue in which the VoiceOver function may read a saved password aloud. The patch works for iPhone XS and later as well as iPad Pro 13-inch, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (third generation and later), iPad Pro 11-inch (first generation and later), iPad Air (third generation and later), iPad (seventh generation and later) and iPad mini (fifth generation and later).
If you own one of these devices, you can upload the new patches by going to the Software Updates tab in the General section of your Settings app.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/new-ios-update-fixes-microphone-and-password-problems-173339119.html?src=rss
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 Following the introduction of the Apple Watch Series 10 and watchOS 11's new sleep apnea detection feature last month, Apple executives Jeff Williams, Dr. Sumbul Desai, and Jay Blahnik sat down for an interview with The Independent's David Phelan. The discussion is focused on the Apple Watch's health features.
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Today, it's ready for prime time. AMD's Adrenalin version 24.9.1 is the software's first stable release to include FMF2.
According to AMD's promotional materials, Fluid Motion Frames 2 is "AI-optimized for improved quality and smoothness," using lower frame generation latency with lower overhead on integrated graphics. It also works on borderless full-screen mode (big for gamers who run multiple background apps) and on games that use Vulkan and OpenGL graphics.
FMF2 is compatible with AMD's RX 6000 and RX 7000 series GPUs on both desktops and laptops as well as integrated AMD graphics systems with RDNA 3 guts (including the latest Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 laptops).
AMD estimates that combining FMF2 with its Hyper-RX suite of tools can give you double, even triple the frame rate for a game compared to its base, non-upscaled state. That's assuming some pretty high-powered hardware, up to the RX 7900 XTX card, according to the fine print.
Other updates in Adrenalin 24.9.1 include "geometric downscaling" (which helps reduce artifacts when windows for video
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Conversica, Inc, the AI-powered Conversation Automation solutions provider, is announcing a series of new features for its Conversational AI platform that offers marketing teams greater control over lead and customer engagement with generative AI (GenAI).?
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